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Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, while the Nazis are closing in.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his headquarters to meet him again and gain his trust, and soon they...
Series
Criterion collection volume 650
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
6) Red dawn
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field. The invasion of the United States has begun. As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage an unremitting guerrilla action in defense of their parents, their friends, and their country.
8) Betrayed
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II espionage drama set in Nazi-occupied Holland. Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer (Gable) trains Carla Van Oven (Turner) for a mission, and makes the mistake of falling in love with her.
Publisher
Redemption Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
On the run from pursuing soldiers, Boris finds refuge in a small European town ingratiating himself in the community, weaving tales of his encounters with the martyred rebel, and thereby seducing a widow, sister, and maid. Boris erotic games are interrupted when a mysterious stranger arrives in the village.
11) Max Manus
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
An explosive, adrenaline-pumping thrill ride and the tale of one man's heroic actions in the line of duty. Based on the true story of World War II saboteur Max Manus and his personal struggles.
12) Anthropoid
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
13) The dirty dozen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany.
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (251 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, a young British widow of a French officer, who braved death while working for the French Resistance in World War II.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A WWII thriller set in a small town in the Jura Mountains split in two by a border between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone. In 1941, Pierre, a demobilized French military officer and the Count de Damville, returns to this border village to find it Occupied by the Germans. His English-born schoolteacher wife and the town's citizens now belong to a Resistance group helping escaped prisoners reach the Free Zone.
17) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more.
18) The train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 13 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
19) Come and see
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (143 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages ; 18 cm).
Language
Belarusian
Description
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
20) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
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